The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-03
ERIN'S TERRIBLE ODDS.
SEEING THEIR POWER, THE TORIES
FORCE THE FIGHTING.


LONDON, May 2.--The Times, referring to
the charges against MI. Parnell and his
party, says: "Our article on Palnellism and
crime and the Parnell letter have sunk deep
into the public mind and have produced
conviction that nothing will shake, save
evidence of the kind that Mr.. Parnell can
not produce" The Times also publishes a
long article Of the style of the articles on
Parnellisn and crime, purporting to show
that John Dillon, in his defense in the House
of Commons of the Parnellite party against
the charges that they had had relations with
Dynamiter Sheriden, either offered to Par
lament tissue of fictions, which he had
never taken the trouble to examine, or
reached still lower depth of dishonesty.
HEAI4Y'S NEW AMENDMENT.
In the House of Commons tonight Mr..
Healy moved that the first clause of the
crimes bill be so amended as to indicate
clearly to what portions of ireland the bill
will be applicable. He suggested that the
words proclaimed districts be omitted and
that Kerry, Londonderry and Belfast" be
inserted in their stead
Mr.. Balfour declined to accede to this pro-
posal. He said the government intended
to apply this clause to all parts of Ireland
where the prevalence of crime justified such
action.
Mr.. Healy asked if blood stained Belfast,
where troops had been shot and policemen
murdered was to go free, while the miser-
able rack k-rented districts in the Southwest
were to be punished.
Mr., Balfour replied that the government
would exercise perfect impartiality in sup
pressing disorder everywhere
AIMED AT THE NATIoNALIsTs.
Mr.. Labouchere said the scope and aim Of
the bill was to crush out the Nationalists,
leaving the Orangemen to do anything they
liked. The administration of the law was
so bounding with the Orange faction that
it could not be impartial.
Mr.. Gladstone suggested that the words
proclaimed districts remain, but that the
districts be defined under other clauses of the
bill. The answer of Mr.. Balfour that all
districts would be treated inipartially was
not sufficient, because the Ministers had
often referred to particular parts of Ireland
where the bill was meant to operate.
BELFAsT's ADHERENCE.
No doubt the people of Belfast regarded
with disgust and horror the prevalence of
disorder in their midst, but the same apology
was equally good for other districts. [CrIes
of hear, hear."] The conduct of some per-
sons in Belfast recently stained the name of
Ireland more than the conduct OF the people
of any other part of ireland had. [Cheers. J
Lord Randolph Churchill said that the
suggestion Mr.. Gladstone had made might
have been valuable, but its value had been
destroyed by the raising OF points which
were calculated to lead to controversy.
DECLARED INCOMPATIBLE.
Mr.. Gladstone had made himself a party
to the insinuation that the government in
tended to apply the clause only to certain
parts of Ireland and leave Belfast out
There had been disorder in Belfast, but the
law had not been arrested. There was
no analogy between the riots in Bel
fast and ''moonlighting" in Kerry, for
which not single person had been
made amenable to justice, No one would
venture to assert that juries in the north of
Ireland had failed to do their duty, as was
often the case with juries i'll the south of
Ireland TO put the diabolcal outrageS of
the south of Ireland, as Mr.. Gladstone did,
on the same level as the disturbances in
Belfast was to condone and apologize for
those outrages. [Cheersl
BELFAsT's BLOODY RECORD.
Mr.. Healy replied that over 800 persons
were manned for life and some killed in the
Belfast riots, and that only few of the
rioters had been punished. He said the
statement was untrue that there had not
been convictions in Kerry. There had been
over twenty.
Mr.. Holmes said that not a single "moon-
lightern had ever been convicted. 1t was
only by change of venue that any con-
victions could be obtained.
Mr., Healy postponed his motion in defer
ence to Mr. Gladstone's suggestion.
JOHN BRENoN's LIBEL SUIT.
The libel suit brought against William
Ridgway, publisher of PicGdiHy, for So, 900
for asserting in black pamphlet on the
Irish question, recently issued by him, that
Sir John Brenon, plaintiff, former Home
Rule member of Parliament, was Fenian
and ally of the InvincibleS, came up for trial
to-day. The court room was crowded. Mr..
Ridgway pleaded that the alleged libel was
true Mr. Brenon, being sworn, made an
emphatic denial of the defendant statement.
Sir John said he had never been Fenian.
He left the Land League, he said, in June,
1880, after q quarrel with its managers for
openieg his kilograms.
He had not since that time joined any
Irish league or association, or any Fenian
league or association. He Ind never travel
ed between Paris and London on Irish
interfered with the work OF
tracing dynamiters. Sir John declared that
Sir Lyon Playfair told him that Mr.. Glad
stone had become converted 10 the home
rule theory in 1879, and that he desired Mr..
Parnell 10 accept the Office of Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland. The witness spoke TO Mr..
Parnell about taking the Office but he de-
clined even to entertain the idea.
HARRINGTON TO THE UNIoNIsTs.
The Marquis Cf Harrington writes letter
to the Liberal UnioniSts advising them to
organize as party for the purpose of main
tanning their position. The Marquis SAYS:
''The Liberals abstaine1 perhaps too
long from acts which seemed likely TO in
tensify and perpetuate Liberal divisions,
while the prospect of a reunion
of the party, or OF reasonable
liberation on the part Of the Liberal ma
jority toward the Liberal Unionists existed.
The establishment OF vigorous Liberal
Unionist association will best preserve the
integrity OF the Liberal party. Otherwise
sound Liberals who cannot approve of Mr..
Gladstoncs policy may be driven TO join the
Conservative party
INQUIRIES NOT LIMITED.
An amendment proposed by Mr. Healy,
that an inquiry be held only when evidence
has been withheld on account of intimida-
tion, was rejected by a vote of 206 TO 40,
after discussion that lasted two hours and
half.
Mr.. Healy then moved that the high
court and not the Attorney General be EN-
powered TO order an inquiry.
Mr.. Gibson. Solicitor General for Ireland,
replied that the government was unable Co
accept the amendment.